Zlata Brbor, a former radio announcer for the Croatian Radio Station Mostar, has died in Mostar at the age of 79. She is best known for her shameful appeal made to Bosniaks in the city in 1993.
On the day the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) and the Croatian Army (HV) launched an attack on the eastern part of Mostar, Brbor went on the radio and asked Bosniaks in Mostar to hang white cloths from their windows “as a sign of surrender.”
That her disgraceful appeal carried a dose of irony is underscored by the fact that Brbor made her call on May 9th, the day Europe celebrates as Victory Day over fascism.
Marking the houses belonging to “enemies of the state” was a policy of the Nazi authorities in Germany, where Jews and other “undesirable groups” were required to wear symbols and place them on their homes.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), before this shameful appeal read by Brbor, a similar call was issued in Prijedor, when Bosniaks and Croats were ordered to wear white armbands.
In the rest of her scandalous address, Brbor, reading a proclamation from the HVO, demanded the “surrender” of fighters from the Army of the Republic of BiH (ARBiH).
The attack by the HVO and HV on the eastern part of Mostar marked the beginning of a siege that lasted until April 1994, during which the Old Bridge was also destroyed.
The siege ended with the signing of the Washington Agreement, brokered by the administration of the United States (U.S.) President Bill Clinton, Klix.ba writes.
